Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine. Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks – the most complex Madonna image of the entire Renaissance. But, ...

In the early 1490s, Leonardo da Vinci tackled his most ambitious work yet – The Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci started The Last Supper in the early 1490s. At the time, depictions of Christ sharing his ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired future generations, and it finds in his soaring imagination and profound intellect the foundation for a conversation we are still ...

In this short video I count down what I consider the five most famous paintings of all time, from Botticelli and Klimt to Van ...

Researchers found clues of a hidden painting that might be a Da Vinci. March 12, 2012— -- It sounds like the stuff of riveting mystery novels: A team of researchers has spent nearly 40 years ...

He is considered the greatest painter of all time, with only eight paintings definitively attributed to this Old World master. He was also gay, which sullied his reputation while he was alive. So it ...

Europe celebrates the Renaissance-era genius. Rome -- This year, myriad celebrations of Renaissance-era genius Leonardo da Vinci are opening across Europe to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.

PARIS (Reuters) - A curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris has stumbled upon some unknown drawings on the back of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that look like they might be by the Italian master ...

Andy Warhol created his own rendition of Leonardo da Vinci's The Annunciation as a part of a series intended to give a "Pop" twist to the icons of the Italian Renaissance. Rather than depicting a ...

“My intention is to tell of bodies changed to different forms,” the Roman poet Ovid wrote in Book One of “Metamorphoses.” Picking up that gestational ball, the painter Barbara Friedman has chosen the ...